Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

• Spring Tips: IO, IO, It's Off To Work We Go - this video took off! In it, I introduce IO, NIO, and Netty as a way to understand what we mean when we talk about blocking and non-blocking.
• Spring Boot Reference Documentation has been updated to include Kotlin
• Spring Data — Never Rollback Readonly Transactions
• Feb 1 - What's new in Spring Boot 2.6?
• Preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 With Prototype of Context Receivers, Parallel Compilation on JVM, Incremental Compilation in JS, and More | The Kotlin Blog
• Java's System Logger abstraction
• Deploying Carvel packages on TKGS workload clusters in vSphere with Tanzu
• sbstp/kubie: A more powerful alternative to kubectx and kubens
• there's a fourth revision to Vectors (not the collection type, per se) in the JDK
• there's also a new JEP draft introducing sequenced collections, where the ordering of the collection is a property of the collection itself